The Marketing Analyst for Top Tier Capital Partners, LLC (“TTCP”) will perform a range of duties associated with the firm’s Corporate Development team focusing on fundraising and brand awareness. As a member of the Corporate Development team, the Marketing Analyst... read more

In this post, we will discuss the benefits of diversity, the current makeup of the investment teams within the funds we have invest in, and some ideas for what our industry can do to help bring more women into the business.

There have been some recent posts and tweets from Fred Wilson, Bill Gurley and others about the first, second and third tier cities for start-ups. While we agree that Silicon Valley is clearly the first tier market, over the past several years we have purposefully... read more

This is a follow-up on the post we made earlier this week that discusses the difficulty in analyzing past performance of VC funds because of team changes. In that post we said, “[Evaluating] Performance is tricky, however, because you have to carefully focus on the …... read more

We were just in the middle of (yet another) healthcare study internally when the news of AbbVie’s $10.2B offer for Stemcentrx came out. This post was already in the works and was going to talk about why we still put about 20% of our investment dollars into the... read more

From Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp to Google’s purchase of Nest Labs, large US technology companies are increasingly using the ample cash on their balance sheets for M&A. Jessica Archibald, managing director at Top Tier Capital Partners, examines how this trend is likely to continue.

Will 2014 bring sustained momentum for venture-backed IPOs? Introduction Initial public offerings continued their rapid rise in 2013, aided by the strong performance of the U.S. public equity markets. Last year, 222 companies successfully completed their IPOs. Those... read more

Venture Performance in the Era of Lean Startups and Continuing Innovation Introduction With the convergence of rapid innovation, right-sized amounts of capital, and improved liquidity, the venture industry has reverted to positive cash flow over the past two years.... read more

The years 2000 to 2009 were a rough decade for venture capital. After a tremendous run from 1985 to 2000 – during which the US venture-capital industry produced IRRs as much as 100% higher than major public-market indices – the sector fell on hard times.

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